Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the temporary suspension of constitutional guarantees was perhaps a reasonable action in abnormal times. Less acceptable, however, is Castro's refusal to allow Batista adherents who took refuge in foreign embassies to leave Cuba. This violation of international principles again suggests that the liberator is not so much a reluctant agent of an aroused people as he is their willing and active leader...
...Cuba last week...
Haiti is caught in a bind between Castro's Cuba, only 50 miles to the northwest, and Rafael Trujillo's bordering Dominican dictatorship. Duvalier would rather be accounted a member of the anti-dictatorial bloc, but that invites attack from Trujillo, whose gunboats already patrol Haitian waters and whose British-made Vampire jets fly patrols over Haitian soil. On the other hand, throwing in with Trujillo would be risky...
Beach v. Mountain. In Cuba, preparations by Castro's bearded veterans to invade the Dominican Republic are indeed under way. Colonel Alberto Bayo, sometime Spanish Loyalist soldier who trained Castro in Mexico three years ago, has been put in charge of strategy and training. The expedition leaders have been picked. But since hitting the beaches in Trujillo's well-armed police state could prove suicidal, the invaders would like to slip in through underarmed Haiti and set up guerrilla operations in the rugged mountains along the Haitian-Dominican border...
...brighten the Vancouver Sun (circ. 213,000), he unleashed all of his formidable flair for spectacular stunts. He sparked exposés, played pictures high and wide, sent his football editor to Formosa to interview Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 15) and his woman's page editor to Cuba to cover the aftermath of the revolution. As Scott's fireworks crackled and city-room morale soared, Publisher Don Cromie scoffed at the doubters who wondered if a columnist could run a newspaper, and said: "This may be the greatest idea I'll ever have...